Top-notch consultant firm - Developer Lab49 Employee Review

5.0
Nov 27, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The company is supportive on personal growth, providing opportunities that you can achieve, work on during or in-between projects. The company hires the best of the bests, so every collegue is smart and you can learn a lot from them if that is important, otherwise if you are experienced you may just share and laugh. The BUD office is amazing, there is also a "mars" stone at the end, it has view on the Danube, billiard and table tennis zone. There are neat and fun team events organized multiple times in a year in the city, and yearly outside. Also game-nights are organized (so you can have fun, meet people during card/board games) after office. Knowledge sharing sessions are organized as Lab Acadamy, where you can also bring your own presentation, or just listen in. You may work also a lot of times remotely. Some projects may have the opportunity for travel abroad to clients. Management is also honest, professional and understanding.

Cons

As a consultant firm you may land every year into a new project to different clients (with different rules, limitations, diverse teams) so you need to be flexible to such changes and manage the psychological part also if you don't get to be taken up to a new project immediately.

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5.0
Sep 16, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

- Working groups around Blockchain, AI, and other interesting topics - Book Club - Open and transparent leadership team

Cons

- Uncertainty around what you will be working - Can do a great job on a project, and still be left on the bench when it is finished

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4.0
May 26, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Hiring is well-gated, so you'll work with smart people. Projects are exclusively in finance so it's a great place to gain exposure in that industry. You operate with a good amount of autonomy.

Cons

It's a consulting company, so engineers are only valuable if they're billable. That means your success is tied to someone else's ability to secure a pipeline of work for you, or your own ability to upsell at your engagement - which may or may not be up to you no matter what you do. There isn't a dedicated sales team at Lab, so this can get spotty. Upper management's presence is felt in seasons - non-existant for months at a time, all over everything the next. They were nowhere to be found as AI got rolled out massively in 2026 and we got caught without a strategy and action plan - either for leveraging internally or for pivoting our model.

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